Archives for
2008

After months of competing platforms, privacy showdowns, arguments over who owns your social networking data, and something called “Scoblegate,” a huge announcement from the DataPortability Workgroup today: Google, Facebook, and Plaxo are in. What doe...

PageOnce is your personal Internet assistant. I can't tell you how PageOnce is your personal Internet assistant because the site is keeping the details very much under wraps. But today it has announced the closing of a $1.5 million round led by Valle...

CBS is feeling left out of the political coverage in the world of web 2.0, so it's teaming up with Digg for online coverage of the 2008 elections. So now we've got YouTube and CNN, Facebook and ABC, and Digg and CBS. Does FOX count since it's been do...

More mobile content! Break.com is teaming up with Verizon Wireless to provide its original video content on VCast Mobile. From the looks of it, nearly all of Break's video content will be available through VCast, including user-generated content, new...

When we first heard of Cisco's plans to create software for companies to build their own interactive social networks, we weren't exactly sure what that entailed from a product standpoint. While Cisco's interest in the social networking market was cle...

The Spinn3r memetracker, a subsidiary of social news-tracking service Tailrank, has released a laundry list of upgrades today, which comprise the Spinn3r version 2.1. The biggest aspect of the new release is the full crawler support. It fetches the f...

uTIPu (pronounced you-tip-you) is a way of sharing information. It's specific to sharing information about your computer. Think of it as a slide show creation tool for the sole purpose of showing someone exactly what you're talking about on a compute...

Comcast is about to get an expensive lesson, one that Warner Music Group learned last year at the expense of its business: going to war with your customers doesn't pay. As 2007 came to a close, we learned what we suspected for years: that Comcast has...

Second Life is prohibiting the offering of interest or any direct return on an investment, whether in L$ or any other currency, from an object such as an ATM within Second Life, without proof of an applicable government registration statement or fina...

We previously introduced the O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference here. The O’Reilly Money:Tech Conference is coming on February 6-7, 2008 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Money:Tech is "Where Web 2.0 Meets Wall Street" – Visit here for program an...

TubeMogul links to a conversation MediaPost's Online Video Insider had with the Senior Vice President of Publicis Tim Hanlon. The piece touches on a lot of interesting points within the business of online video, but TubeMogul highlights one quote in...

Twitter announced on their blog this evening the new hire of Lee Mighdoll as the Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Twitter has been on the hunt for someone to fill this particular postition for quite a while, apparently, and has finally f...

About a week ago, Gaia Online announced the integration of Widevine's DRM, allowing Time Warner and Sony to show their content on Gaia's virtual social network without fear of content piracy. The three million monthly user strong network today has re...

The first west coast MashMeet: MashMeet LA is fully booked and RSVPed. The event will be held at Boe in the Crescent Hotel (Beverly Hills). Mashable founder Pete Cashmore will be in attendance, along with various web influencers, startups and establi...

Yahoo's web-based audio player hasn't been a very interesting affair so far: it's an embeddable widget that plays 30 second music clips from Yahoo Music. However, with the latest update, Yahoo Media player can now reproduce audio from other sites, to...

We know what you're thinking. That many? Yes, we were surprised, too, but decided to plough through the seemingly endless supply of URL shorteners and put them all in one place. You'll never have to use more than a handful, but now at least you know ...

The UK lawmakers are finally considering changing their copyright law so that CD ripping is no longer illegal. Yes, in case you didn't know, all that debate on the legality of merely copying tracks from a CD to your hard drive is happening on US soil...

Everyone is used to Google being generous, for lack of a better word, in the way they treat their users and customers. Therefore it's a rare occasion for them to discontinue a service, but this is what has happened today for users outside of North Am...

"Xobni" is "Inbox" backwards, and although the result isn't too bad in this particular case, I hope this naming scheme doesn't turn into a trend. As far as the service itself goes, it's a desktop application/plugin that helps you organize your e-mail...

Trulia, the real estate web site, has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform, which allows other web sites to offer real estate listings under their own brand. Early partners include Kiplinger, Village Voice Media, and AmericanTowns. The premise her...

Belo, the corporation that owns a large number of TV stations and newspapers across America, has announced today a big push involving their exclusive partnership with Yahoo to put their local news coverage online. In conjunction with Yahoo News, the...

Those of you who don't like Windows and aren't too fond of Macs either, but aren't really all that crazy about the complexity of Linux, might be in for a treat: a new version of gOS is available for download. gOS is the unofficial Google OS; a Linux-...

AT&T executive James Cicconi, senior vice president of external & legal affairs must not read the news before opening their mouths. The New York Times Bits Blog is reporting this morning that representatives at CES have openly stated today "that they...

TechHit has released their latest version of OutTwit, Beta 0.3. For those unfamiliar with the Microsoft Outlook add-on, we've covered it before, here's a brief recap is in order. You can update your Twitter messages from inside the mail program, have...

From the folks at IZEA, a collection of Web services and utilities and other inventions ranging from the highly-publicized (and rather controversial) PayPerPost to the Bloggers Choice Awards, comes IZEARanks, a new blog classification system which ju...

Primaries? What primaries?!? All that matters is that Rep Ron Paul, the lovable Presidential candidate that the Internet has embraced, is still top of the charts when it comes to Internet searches! Over at The Lycos 50, they're showing off their late...

Reciva has announced that they will be adding Pandora to their Internet radios and networked devices. As should be expected after the recent news about Pandora and problems outside the USA, this will only be on devices sold inside the United States....

Within six-months, Apple will be reducing their prices on the UK iTunes store to match the prices they already charge across the rest of Europe. (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, N...

Like Zoho? We do as well. Very much. If you are indeed a fan of the Web-based software suite - and you also happen to enjoy chatting via Skype with your friends/family/colleagues on occasion - you’ll certainly like this next bit of news we’ve got for...

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